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Welcome to the Isaac Newton Institute! If you'd like to find out more about who we are and what we do, this short film is the perfect place to start. We hope it inspires you to visit us soon 👋📽️🧑🎓🎞️🧮
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On 23 June 1993 Andrew Wiles announced his historic first proof of Fermat's Last Theorem here at the Isaac Newton Institute. Thirty years later, we asked the man himself how he feels on the occasion:
@plusmathsorg
@Cambridge_Uni
@OxUniMaths
#flt30
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"Find problems you enjoy, and just work on them. It doesn't matter if you never solve them" ~ Sir Andrew Wiles on the 30th anniversary of his first proof of Fermat's Last Theorem:
#flt30
@Cambridge_Uni
@OxUniMaths
@plusmathsorg
@BBCNewshour
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We are thrilled to announce that Professor Ulrike Tillmann (
@OxUniMaths
) will be the next Director of the Isaac Newton Institute, a position she will take up from 01/10/21. Join us in wishing her many congratulations and the warmest of welcomes! 🎉🎓🙌🧮
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Born
#OnThisDay
1928, Alexander Grothendieck. One of the most celebrated mathematicians of the 20th century, he is most widely praised for his leading work on algebraic geometry.
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On this day 24 years ago, Andrew Wiles presented his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, a proof that seemed impossible for > 350 years.
#fermat
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Congratulations to Prof Julia Gog, an organiser on Infectious Dynamics of Pandemics programme, who has been awarded the prestigious
@royalsociety
Rosalind Franklin Award for her great work with
@plusmathsorg
@MMPmaths
on disease modelling
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23 June 1993 and 20 July 2017: same room, same boards, same smile. But here's an interesting, frivolous and pleasing thing...
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The Mathematics of Deep Learning (MDL) programme kicking off with Friday night drinks. Great to see all who could make it in person.
#NewtonMDL2021
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Check out this 2020
@TEDTalks
video from
@ylecun
(
@nyuniversity
@facebookai
) in which he discusses "self-supervised machine learning" and how he's trying to build machines that "learn with common sense". Wave 🌊 of the future 🤖 stuff...
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We're 3⃣1⃣ years old today! 🎂🥳🎉 The Isaac Newton Institute was officially opened on 3 July 1992, and since that point we've run more than 1⃣8⃣0⃣ research programmes. We've even started shooting with colour film too 📸. Read more about our story here:
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#BornOnThisDay
1882, Amalie Emmy Noether. One of the 20th century's leading mathematicians, her eponymous theorem was dubbed "one of the most important... ever proved in guiding the development of modern physics"
@womeninmaths
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It's finally Thursday 21 Jan... and we are thrilled to announce a dramatic increase in
@EPSRC
funding for INI from 2021! This £10m investment brings with it more activity, more opportunity, greater infrastructure... and more maths. Click for full details:
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Born
#OnThisDay
1718: Maria Gaetana Agnesi. The first woman appointed as a mathematics professor at a university, she was a child prodigy, polyglot and humanitarian who - amongst many other achievements - gave her name to the "Witch of Agnesi" curve.
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Today on
#IndiaIndependenceDay
we celebrate the life and work of the brilliant number theorist, Srinivasa Ramanujan. Famous for his collaboration with G.H. Hardy, he was the first Indian mathematician to hold a fellowship at
@TrinCollCam
.
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#BornOnThisDay
Terence Tao. A participant in four INI programmes (so far), Professor Tao is a Fields Medal winner whose work ranges from harmonic analysis and compressed sensing to algebraic combinatorics. Happy Birthday, Terence! 🎉
@uclamath
@FieldsInstitute
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The Indian mathematician and astronomer
#Aryabhata
(476–550) calculated an approximation for π correct to four decimal places & used this to estimate the circumference of the Earth, arriving at a figure of 24,835 miles, only 70 miles off its true value.
#IndianIndependence
15/08
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Did you know... it's 10 years to the day since
@millarmind
won a stage of the
#TourDeFrance
(stage 12, 2012), and that this finish line photo - with its curious curved spokes - helps explain the difference between Eulerian and Lagrangian mechanics...?
#TourDeFrance2022
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#OnThisDay
in 1642 Galileo Galilei died in Tuscany.
#OnThisDay
in 1942, Stephen Hawking was born in Oxford.
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#BornOnThisDay
Gottfried Leibniz is known for having invented calculus independently of Newton, but this was widely disputed at the time leading to the calculus controversy. Find out more about this & the importance of calculus in
@numberphile
recent podcast with
@stevenstrogatz
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From
@theNASciences
: "In recognition of (her) remarkable life and achievements, the National Academy of Sciences has established a newly named Maryam Mirzakhani Prize in Mathematics. The prize will be awarded biennially for exceptional contributions to the mathematical sciences..
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Died
#OnThisDay
1829, Niels Henrik Abel. A pioneer and innovator across numerous mathematical fields, he "left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years". His life was cut short at the age of 26 by tuberculosis. The
@abel_prize
is named in his honour.
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Some photo highlights from this week's
@LondMathSoc
"Women in Maths" event, hosted here at INI. More to come in next week's email news bulletin ()! Have a superb weekend, all.
#cambridge
#mathematics
@womeninmaths
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One week into her tenure as Director of INI, we spoke to Prof Ulrike Tillmann about her background, her love of
#mathematics
, and what the future could hold for INI under her stewardship. Listen to the 12-min conversation here: 🎙️🗣️🔊
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Died
#OnThisDay
1996: Joan Clarke. An alumna of
@Newnham_College
(where she was awarded a double first in mathematics) she is best known as a central figure within the Engima project conducted at Bletchley Park during WWII.
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Our decimal number system can be traced back to
#India
, and today we share with you a quote from Laplace... (second image: "The Evolution of Hindu-Arabic numbers",
@Britannica
)
#IndianIndependenceDay
15/08
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This month's
@amermathsoc
"Notices" features a thorough and moving celebration of Maryam Mirzakhani's life and work. An inspiring (even essential) read by any standards:
#mathematics
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Very sad to hear this news. Bob May made significant advances in mathematical biology as well as co-authoring one of the seminal texts for mathematical epidemiologists. He will be sorely missed.
"Robert May was an extraordinary man who drove great change in every domain he committed his talents to". Venki Ramakrishnan, President of the Royal Society pays tribute to the late Robert May, Fellow and former President of the Royal Society.
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Congratulations to
@desirivanova
🥉 (
@OxUniMaths
), Matthew Tointon 🥇 (
@BristolUniMaths
) and Teresa Bautista 🥈 (
@KingsCollegeLon
) on their
@STEM4Brit
awards this afternoon! 👏🎉🧮
#mathematics
#stem
@UKParliament
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Born
#OnThisDay
in 1954: Ingrid Daubechies. Besides her significant work on wavelets within image compression, she was also the first female full professor of mathematics at
@princeton
and the first woman to be president of the International Mathematical Union.
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Earlier this month (08 July),
@FacultyMaths
' Professor Carola-Bibiane Schonlieb was awarded the 2019 Calderon Prize by the Inverse Problems International Association (IPIA). She is the first female mathematician to receive the award. Many congratulations, Carola!
#mathematics
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Would you like to know more about Fermat's Last Theorem and what it continues to mean for mathematics today? Our colleagues at
@plusmathsorg
have produced this superb documentary podcast asking the key figures, including Andrew Wiles himself:
#flt30
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This week's workshop is titled: "Deep learning and inverse problems". It kicks off today at 13:00 and you can find full details of every talk here: Even if you're not a participant, you can still
#watchlive
too:
#NewtonMDL2021
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#BornOnThisDay
Kurt Gödel was one of the most significant logicians in history - aged just 25 he published his incompleteness theorem which demonstrates the limitations inherent within any formal axiomatic system capable of modelling basic arithmetic (*breathes*)
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Born
#OnThisDay
in 1914: Marjorie Lee Browne. One of the first African-American women to be awarded a PHD in mathematics in the US (
@UMich
), she dedicated a large part of her career to encouraging and broadening the teaching of maths to minorities and women.
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#BornOnThisDay
Claude Shannon, known as the father of information theory. His work "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" applied tools from probability theory to information theory, introducing the concept of information entropy (measure of information content in a message)
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Urgent call from the
@royalsociety
for scientific modellers including data scientists. Can you help?
#COVID19
Urgent call for scientific modellers to support pandemic modelling. Can you help?
#covid19
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The 18-poster exhibition "Remember Maryam Mirzakhani", which has been displayed all over the world from Brisbane to Ottawa, will now be hosted permanently in the Iranian town of Taleghan. Read more here:
@cfwimath
@womeninmaths
@STEMWomen
#mirzakhani
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Thirty years ago today INI was formally established as part of
@Cambridge_Uni
. Here's to many more decades of hosting the world's greatest mathematical minds! 🥳🎉
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Next week (23/24/25 August 10:00-11:00) we have a special trilogy of lectures by Michael Bronstein (
@ImperialMaths
) on "Geometric Deep Learning", delivered as part of the
#NewtonMDL2021
programme. Watch them here 👉 & find full details of each talk below 👇
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Did you spot the tribute to John Conway's iconic "Game of Life" model in the newly opened
#CambridgeNorth
station?
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Sad to hear about the passing of renowned mathematician John Conway over the weekend. Famous for his cellular automaton, The Game of Life, (& his incessant game playing in the Cambridge maths common room) he also discovered the surreal numbers. He will be sorely missed.
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Kirk Public Lecture | "Counting curves: which, how and why" - Prof
@BarbaraFantechi
. Watch live here:
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Applications are now open for a *new* postdoctoral research fellowship in mathematics. Successful candidates will spend 4-6 months working on an INI programme and the remainder of the year at
@Cambridge_Uni
's
@FacultyMaths
. See the link for details:
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And we are "go"! It's Day
#1
of our
#SummerMathsPuzzles
project. Today's challenge is titled "100 Pebbles" and features (fittingly for August) surfing, beaches, a family at odds and a fiendish conundrum. Can you find the solution?
#mathematics
#puzzle
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We are thrilled to announce that Dr Christie Marr (INI Deputy Director), has been appointed *Executive Director* of a new National Academy for the Mathematical Sciences! Initially as a secondment, the post begins mid-November. Congratulations Christie! 👏
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#DiedOnThisDay
1891, Sofya Kovalevskaya. The Russian mathematician was the first woman to obtain a doctorate in mathematics, made significant contributions to the theory of PDEs, and has been described as "the greatest known woman scientist before the twentieth century".
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Participants in this week's workshop "Mathematical mechanical biology: old school and new school, methods and applications"
#NewtonUSM2023
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"How can maths fight a pandemic?" An excellent article in
@plusmathsorg
today with Julia Gog, organiser of INI's Infectious Disease Dynamics programme.
#COVID19
#InfectiousDiseaseDynamics
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Standing room only in the seminar room this afternoon. Could it have something to do with the speaker, perhaps...? 2006 Fields medallist Prof Terence Tao (
@UCLA
) is currently delivering his talk "Marton's Polynomial Freiman-Ruzsa conjecture". Watch live:
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Born
#OnThisDay
in 1918: Katherine Johnson. During her 35-year career at
@NASA
she "earned a reputation for mastering complex manual calculations and helped pioneer the use of computers to perform the tasks". She died earlier this year aged 101.
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Our main seminar room now carries a small tribute to Professor Maryam Mirzakhani. We hope her passion for mathematics continues to inspire.
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Participants from this week's workshop on "Active mechanics, from single cells to cell layers, tissues and development".
For more information on the workshop, via the link in our bio.
#NewtonSPL2023
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"Ramanujan, one of the most important mathematicians of the twentieth century, is particularly mysterious. His life seems to be have been spun from the stuff of fiction and film."
#IndianMathematics
#SrinivasaRamanujan
#Diwali2020
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Happy
#WomeninMaths
day to you all! We're fortunate to meet and interview so many brilliant women mathematicians here at INI (see below images and link for just three of the latest). Have you ever been inspired by an interview? Is there anyone you'd love to hear in the future?
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The Institute is deeply saddened to learn of the recent passing of Professor Vaughan Jones: Fields Medalist, and Organiser of the 2017 INI programme: "Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications" (OAS). Our deepest sympathies go to his family, friends and colleagues.
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#DiedOnThisDay
1970: Bertrand Russell. A philosopher, logician and mathematician, his "Principia Mathematica" (written with A.N.Whitehead) attempted to create a logical basis for mathematics.
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It's 01 December and that means the start of our
#AdventBlackboards
❄️🎄☃️ project! Our first entry is the magnificent Dirac Equation (
@stjohnscam
). Another theorem, equation, conjecture or law to follow every day until 25 December. Have a favourite you'd like to see? Let us know!
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#BornOnThisDay
1826, Bernhard Riemann who proposed the
#RiemannHypothesis
that the Riemann-Zeta function has its non-trivial zeros only for complex numbers with real part equal to 0.5. This
#MilleniumPrize
problem is worth 💵$1m💵 for the first proof or counter-example...
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A little mathematical picture for all you ghouls out there
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Huge congratulations to 2022 Fields Medalists Maryna Viazovska, Hugo Duminil-Copin, June Huh, and James Maynard!
We'd love to share with you a wonderful talk that Maryna Viazovska gave at INI a few months ago:
#fieldsmedal
#ICM2022
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We're very pleased to say that our recent
@Cambridge_Fest
talk "A mathematical toolkit for pandemics" by Prof Julia Gog is now available to view on demand!
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Happy Birthday Leonhard Euler 🥳🎂
It's Leonhard Euler's birthday today! Here are five favourite Euler problems
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Click here to receive INI news, updates and workshop info direct to your inbox -->
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Today is the *100th birthday* of
@Kings_College
alumnus Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao "a living legend whose work has influenced not just statistics, but... economics, genetics, anthropology, geology... and medicine."
@UBuffalo
@penn_state
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Join Professor Jean-Francois Joanny from the Collège de France on the 16th of October 2023 at 4pm for his talk on Growth and mechanics of tissues as part of the "New statistical physics in living matter: non equilibrium states under adaptive control" programme.
#NewtonSPL2023
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#DiedOnThisDay
1918: Georg Cantor. The Russian-born mathematician can be considered as the founder of set theory. He introduced the concept of infinite numbers with his discovery of cardinal numbers.
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Huge congratulations to friend-of-the-Institute Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb who will be promoted to professor effective from 1 October. A regular speaker at
#INI
and co-organiser of the VMV programme (2017), we can think of none more deserving of the role.
#DAMTP
@Cambridge_Uni
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#OnThisDay
in 1632: Galileo Galilei presented the first printed copy of his "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems". It compared the Copernican and Ptolemaic systems of astronomy, was deemed heretical and placed on the Cathollic Church's "Index of Forbidden Books".
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A huge thanks to Prof Julia Gog for her fascinating talk today as part of the
@Cambridge_Fest
! Keep an eye on our YouTube channel for the full talk available to view on demand next week:
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The Spirit of Ramanujan Do you have the skill to solve some of these mathematical puzzels?
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Participants in this week's "Building a bridge between non-equilibrium statistical physics and biology" workshop! A full house this week 👍 Details here:
#NewtonSPL2023
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Starting in just a few minutes is "The power of women in deep learning", a two-day workshop that aims to "showcase some of the amazing work that women are doing in the mathematical foundation of deep learning"👍🎓
#NewtonMDL2021
@caromitreka
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Martin Bond visiting INI yesterday - attached snaps are ours not his! He took lots of photos of the building and our
#BeautifulBlackboards
and we can't wait to see the end result!
@acambridgediary
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On this day, 23 June 1993, Andrew Wiles announced his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem here
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The scheduling feature on
@X
seems to have duplicated this morning's messages... but we're leaving them up. Because what's better than a post about Sir Isaac Newton? That's right. TWO posts about Sir Isaac Newton 🫳🎤
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20 years ago today Andrew Wiles presented his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in the last of 3 lectures at INI.
http://t.co/eCt7pmRMl8
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We're very happy to be promoting
@STEM4Brit
this week! An annual exhibition of posters by early-career researchers held at
@UKParliament
, there are 20 talented ECR mathematicians attending the final on Monday 7 March - read more here:
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The next in our series on extraordinary mathematicians is Nilanjana Datta
#WomenInMathsCambridge
@plusmathsorg
…
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"Memories of Vaughan Jones" is now available via the
@amermathsoc
. Sir Vaughan (a major part of the 2017 "Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications" programme) passed away last year. This heartfelt tribute explains why he'll be missed so much.
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This week's workshop is "Mathematical mechanical biology: old school and new school, methods and applications" - a warm welcome to all involved! Full details and talk listings here:
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Olga Ladyzhenskaya was an influential Russian mathematician and today is her 97th birthday. She's known for her work on the Navier-Stokes equations which have vast applications. Find out more about their uses from past INI programme
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Would you like to organise your own INI research programme (in Cambridge or beyond)? Perhaps you're just looking for additional funding for your research network? Our next application deadline for new proposals is 30 November...
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RIP Maryam
#Mirzakhani
, first woman to win the Fields Medal. So inspirational.
@FieldsInstitute
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We are pleased to announce that Professor Chris Breward has been appointed as the inaugural Scientific Director of the UK’s new Knowledge Exchange Hub for Mathematical Sciences (KE Hub) 👏🎉🧮🤝 See the full details here 👉
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🎉MONDAY 15 APRIL @ 16:00🎉 | Join us in seminar room 1 for
#NewtonEMG2024
Kirk Fellow
@BarbaraFantechi
's public keynote lecture "Counting curves: which, how and why". Watch a two-minute preview here: | Attend in person or online on the day ✅
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Thrilling to see that having a Master's degree in mathematics from
@Cambridge_Uni
@FacultyMaths
a PDH from
@la_UPC
, and working as a postdoctoral researcher at
@EPFL_en
is no barrier to winning
#Olympic
#gold
! "Inspiring" seems too weak a word, Anna 👏
Anna Kiesenhofer of
#AUT
takes
#gold
in the
#CyclingRoad
women’s road race on her
#Olympics
debut!
#StrongerTogether
|
@tokyo2020
|
@UCI_cycling
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In the latest
#INIpodcast
we're joined by the esteemed
@d_spiegel
to discuss "number theatre" 🎭, ranting 😠, blame 👊, speculation 🤷♂️, "The Art of Statistics" ✅, "Following the Science" ❌ and more. Listen here 👉 or via your podcast app of choice 🎧
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Mysterious artist leaves beautiful chalk drawing of Ada Lovelace on one of our chalkboards within the Institute. 🎨🖌️
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We have another full year coming up in 2023! Download this poster yourself here:
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In the latest
#INIPodcast
Dan Aspel speaks to Prof. Julia Gog (
@Cambridge_Uni
). From organising INI's "Infectious Dynamics of Pandemics" programme to working with and alongside key government advisory groups few people have had a more "bonkers" six months:
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We are excited to announce our first ever virtual programme Infectious Dynamics of Pandemics
#NewtonIDP2020
which kicks off today. The programme will explore math modelling work being used to understand the dynamics of the pandemic & support
@royalsociety
RAMP initiative.
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First in our series of extraordinary women mathematicians is Natalia Berloff
#WomenInMathsCambridge
@plusmathsorg
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Click here to watch talks by Sir Andrew Wiles,
@SLSingh
, Martin Hairer and more in our 25th anniversary event recap:
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Talk: Transmission dynamic models for COVID-19: policy & beyond. Join us today at 6pm (UK time) for our
#NewtonIDP2020
plenary talk from
@GrahamMedley
Director of
@cmmid_lshtm
& chair of Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling - streamed live here
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Another gem from
@royalsociety
The original letter Isaac Newton sent to the Royal Society in 1672, containing his New Theory about Light and Colors
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INI has supported 17 mathematicians escaping war or political persecution through the Solidarity Programme so far. Please help us spread awareness of this essential lifeline. Find out more here:
#worldrefugeeday
@CentreGHuM
@LondMathSoc
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Participants in this week's "Collective behaviour" workshop
#NewtonMMV2023
... further details here 👉 📸
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We recently sat down with Prof Franca Hoffmann (
@HCM_Bonn
,
@UniBonn
) to discuss
@AIMS_Next
,
@AIMS_Rwanda
, and all the opportunities that teaching maths in Africa can unlock for all parties involved. You can listen to it right now, right here 👉
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It's nearly time for the third of three special lectures delivered this week, "Geometric Deep Learning - Applications & Next Steps" by
@mmbronstein
(
@ImperialMaths
). Due to start in 30mins, join us here:
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